fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe
spirits (distilled beverage)
fabrication; put-up job; trumped-up story; frame-up; hoax
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
scale (of fish, snake, etc.); serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
salamander (in mythology); salamander (amphibian of the order Caudata)
in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter
hidden treasure; treasured article
the entire strength; all hands; all the members
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
to hold fast; to protect to the end
putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation
to cling to; to hold on to; to grapple; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of
treason; treachery; mutiny; rebellion; insurrection
last days; the end; one's fate
excavation; exhumation; discovery (e.g. new talent)
attack; assault; attempt; try
flaring up; burning hotly; flying into a rage; losing one's cool; opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth); (arch.) acting resolutely
new type; new style; new model; new strain (e.g. infectious disease)
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
just what you'd expect from ...; that's just like (him, her, etc.); that's (exactly) why ...; that's (precisely) the reason ...
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
burden; load (e.g. CPU time, electricity, etc.)
finishing blow; coup de grâce
sailing; marching; going out; dispatch
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
it's not like; it isn't as if
blue (colour, color); sad; down (in the dumps)
division of labour; division of labor; splitting into groups (e.g. to search)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to become frightened; to be frightened (of); to be scared (of)